ACF International Network
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Action Against Hunger has developed its water and sanitation expertise over nearly three decades of field work, advancing a number of solutions for populations at risk from water insecurity.
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Central to the targeting of malnutrition, Action Against Hunger extends water and sanitation improvements to communities with little or no access to proper sources.
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Action Against Hunger's programs are sustainable because of our commitment to community participation—to build local capacity and harnesses a population's energy and resources.
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Though strategies may vary, our food security interventions all share a common goal: to fight hunger by preserving and strengthening livelihoods in a sustainable and contextual manner.
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Action Against Hunger’s innovative food security programs offer a broad range of solutions for generating income, boosting food production, and strengthening livelihoods.
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Our comprehensive approach to hunger involves extending water and sanitation services to communities faced with water scarcity, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate sanitation.
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Action Against Hunger occupies a unique place among international organizations: our expertise encompasses emergency relief, longer-term development, and the terrain in between.
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We have developed an effective method to treat acute malnutrition that includes field-tested protocols and nutritional products backed by an international scientific advisory committee.
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Action Against Hunger helps rehabilitate and restock public health infrastructure, fields mobile health clinics, and trains local medical personnel on preventative and diagnostic care.
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Our comprehensive programs address the linkages between disease and malnutrition by coordinating with local expertise and strengthening existing public health systems.
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Where We Work

Global Water Initiative with Buffet Foundation

Action Against Hunger joined forces with the Howard G. Buffet Foundation and a select number of nonprofits to launch an ambitious new undertaking called the “Global Water Initiative” (GWI). The GWI aims to provide comprehensive solutions to communities lacking drinking water and proper sanitation around the world, but also serves as an exciting new model for nonprofits and major private foundations—one designed to enhance nonprofit capacities while scaling-up the reach and impact of their programs.

The Global Water Initiative was designed to integrate all aspects of sound water resource management, from emergency relief and immediate community needs to longer-term development and sustainable resource management.
— Youcef Hammache

Committing $150 million over 10 years, the GWI will focus on the needs of some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities in 13 countries across Africa and Central America. The GWI’s seven partners will address the challenges of long-term access to clean water and sanitation, access to water for rural production, and the sustainable management of ecosystem and watershed services.

Unprecedented among development initiatives, the GWI is unique in bringing together a broad coalition of nonprofit experts to support services in water supply, sanitation, agriculture, environmental management, water resource analysis, policy development, and public education. The initiative’s partners were involved from the outset, collectively building a common vision, coordinating roles and responsibilities, and sharing accountability for the GWI’s regional ventures.

“The GWI was designed to integrate all aspects of sound water resource management, from emergency relief and immediate community needs to longer-term development and sustainable resource management,” says Youcef Hammache, Action Against Hunger’s GWI Project Manager. As a novel approach to long-term foundation support, the GWI promises a wide-ranging set of solutions to water problems around the globe.